The genocide in Gaza exposed how racist and hypocritical most of the West is. Human rights and international law doesn’t apply universally. It makes it so much harder to ever take them seriously on it.
Countries aren’t condemning Israel because the right wing parties support them and the left wing parties have been cowed into submission by years of misuse of the term “anti-semetism” by Israel’s supporter’s to attack critics of Israel. They get away with it because standing up to Israel is not as important to the parties (or voters) as their own home country priorities.
Germany also has a thick layer of holocaust guilt on top of that, which means the country doesn’t dare to criticise Israel.
On top of all that, there is an element of anti-islamic sentiment which adds to the lack of motivation to get involved. Right or wrong, there is a perception of decades of Islamic terrorism, ISIS, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq which all feeds into public sentiment in the west. This is also one of the factors (coupled with anti immigration sentiments) driving the growth of right wing parties like AfD in Germany, the Nationalists in France, Reform in the UK and of course Trumps Republicans in the USA.
I dont see anyone in power standing up for Gaza anytime soon.
I depressingly second that as well, if anything we can take from this unprecedented disaster, is the total exposure of the state of Israel and the whole world seeing in real time the atrocities committed by the IDF, a whole new generation has woken up and they are not afraid to take action, not afraid to speak their minds, understanding how complicit most of the world leaders are, and how the word (anti-semitisme) doesn’t hold as much power as it did before, over governments, yes, not over the people anymore.
The genocide in Gaza exposed how racist and hypocritical most of the West is. Human rights and international law doesn’t apply universally. It makes it so much harder to ever take them seriously on it.
Countries aren’t condemning Israel because the right wing parties support them and the left wing parties have been cowed into submission by years of misuse of the term “anti-semetism” by Israel’s supporter’s to attack critics of Israel. They get away with it because standing up to Israel is not as important to the parties (or voters) as their own home country priorities.
Germany also has a thick layer of holocaust guilt on top of that, which means the country doesn’t dare to criticise Israel.
On top of all that, there is an element of anti-islamic sentiment which adds to the lack of motivation to get involved. Right or wrong, there is a perception of decades of Islamic terrorism, ISIS, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq which all feeds into public sentiment in the west. This is also one of the factors (coupled with anti immigration sentiments) driving the growth of right wing parties like AfD in Germany, the Nationalists in France, Reform in the UK and of course Trumps Republicans in the USA.
I dont see anyone in power standing up for Gaza anytime soon.
Depressingly accurate summary
I depressingly second that as well, if anything we can take from this unprecedented disaster, is the total exposure of the state of Israel and the whole world seeing in real time the atrocities committed by the IDF, a whole new generation has woken up and they are not afraid to take action, not afraid to speak their minds, understanding how complicit most of the world leaders are, and how the word (anti-semitisme) doesn’t hold as much power as it did before, over governments, yes, not over the people anymore.